What's the difference between storm and uproar?

Storm


Definition:

  • (n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
  • (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
  • (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
  • (n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
  • (v. i.) To raise a tempest.
  • (v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
  • (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (2) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
  • (5) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
  • (6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
  • (7) These are all steps we can take and we’re in a much better place to weather this storm because of the action we’ve taken over the last four years.
  • (8) We present a case of a natural death following thyroid storm in which marked thymic hyperplasia was present.
  • (9) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
  • (10) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
  • (11) If the extra heat stored in the oceans is released into the atmosphere, then the severity of storms will inevitably increase.
  • (12) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
  • (14) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (15) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
  • (16) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
  • (17) Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby.
  • (18) Eoin McLennan-Murray, a former president of the PGA, said in February 2014 that staff shortages and increasing numbers of incidents were creating a “perfect storm” that would destabilise prisons .
  • (19) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
  • (20) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.

Uproar


Definition:

  • (n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
  • (v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
  • (v. i.) To make an uproar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
  • (2) Bayern’s game in Saudi Arabia also coincided with the uproar over the flogging in the country of activist and blogger Raif Badawi .
  • (3) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
  • (4) In addition to new jobs, the £50m will fund significant investment in training and new systems to improve customer service.” Centrica and other big energy companies are under political and regulatory pressure over their treatment of UK energy customers, reflecting public uproar over the cost of household bills.
  • (5) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
  • (6) Hitler had become chancellor of Germany just 10 days earlier, and the vote provoked uproar.
  • (7) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
  • (8) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
  • (9) The incident sparked uproar, but the circumstances which led the schoolgirls to trek outside at night are not unusual in India .
  • (10) Burke and the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, were ejected from parliament during the subsequent uproar over the speaker’s handling of the matter.
  • (11) Local media said the crash revived memories of an accident in 2004, when a CH-53 helicopter from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma crashed into a nearby university building, triggering a huge anti-base uproar although there were no civilian injuries and the crew survived.
  • (12) The judge who has allowed a financier to bring a secret libel suit against his own sister-in-law defended his decision to make all the parties anonymous on Wednesday, in the wake of the uproar over superinjunctions and the outing of footballer Ryan Giggs in defiance of court orders.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahmed Mohamed wants to move schools after arrest for homemade clock A social media uproar ensued, with people questioning whether Ahmed would have been arrested had he not been Muslim.
  • (14) Spicer linked those comments to the rightwing uproar over a recent New York production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader was dressed to resemble Trump, and, as in every production since 1599, assassinated.
  • (15) If the budget does not bring about any further funding increase, there would be uproar.” The junior doctor and GP trainee Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya said the demonstration was a chance for the government to plot a new course for the NHS.
  • (16) That provoked uproar in the press room and was eventually rescinded.
  • (17) Lost in the uproar caused in some circles by the condemnation of Israeli settlements embodied in Kerry’s speech and in UN security council resolution 2334 is the fact that, in line with previous US policies on Palestine, both ignore basic rights of the Palestinian people, and the requirements of international law, of justice and of equity.
  • (18) In the ensuing political uproar, Mrs Thatcher was unable to deny that she had been well aware of the way her son stood to gain from her conflict of interest.
  • (19) Police arrested 31 as they clashed with protesters in another night of gunfire, teargas and chaos in Ferguson 10 days after the shooting of an unarmed teenager ignited an uproar over race in America.
  • (20) Amid the uproar of his emerging social activism, Kaepernick is still trying to win a job with the 49ers less than four years after leading them to the Super Bowl.